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Here is my suggestion for an update of the part 756.dat. See my post (URL) a background story on why I think it should be updated. You may worry that this part, having more rounded shapes and more polygons, will make the rendering of a hose more CPU (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: what is legos official view of ldraw?
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(...) AFAIK, TLG hasn't said anything officially regarding LDraw or its parts libraries. I believe LDraw as a freeware program is well within its rights to contain SW elements as well. They aren't making official statements about it (IMO) because (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) I meant to say "no point _for_me_ to discuss anymore". Sorry for sounding harsh. (...) I still don't agree. But as I said (or rather meant to say, English isn't my primary language, so I sometimes goof) we probably don't need to discuss this (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) I only used eight, to simplify the drawing, which was made by hand. (...) All I say is that the benefits from it overweight the extra effort. (...) Correct, Can't argue with that ! But this problem surfaces, due to the intrinsic polygonized (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problem with 1-4con1.dat
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(...) I am using the color definitions from Anton's Lego library and these are the closest to real Lego colors i have seen. The only exception is black and transparent black that should be <0.2,0.2,0.2> Georg (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | what is legos official view of ldraw?
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What is the official view of lego on the ldraw rendering program and parts library? Does TLG have anything to say about the library? Is there anything that TLG would like us not to make and put into the library (e.g. some of the "star wars (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) LDraw code? With a circular shape having 16 segments, not eight as in your diagrams. If you think that is simpler for the parts authors (or that it requires a "tiny extra effort") as compared to superimposing a quad and a disc (two lines of (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | the parts 754.dat and 756.dat in the 8.5L hose
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Hi, I've been working a bit with flexible hoses lately, and I've noticed an odd thing about the parts which make up the bent version of the 8.5L flexible hose. The part 754.dat (URL) used as a hose segment, about 50 of them go into a single hose. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Auch, another error? Thank you, Lars, I'll fix it and send it to Steve Bliss, hopefully making it to the next update. Fredrik (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help for povray needed!
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(...) <SNIP> Thanks, this helps a lot, but now there is one problem left: MLCad first creates the dat file to be converted, than calls L3P to convert it into pov and than it executes pov-ray with the above statement. If you do that for multiple (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3P won't work on my computer
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(...) L3P is a command-line DOS program, so you have to run it from MS-DOS Prompt. However, L3PAO is a Windows program, so you won't need to type any command lines for it. (...) Not that I know of, but it shouldn't be too difficult to set up L3PAO (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | L3Lab and BFC
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I have been very busy for the past weeks (tearing down a brick fireplace (real bricks :-) and a 20 feet chimney, painting ceilings and walls, the Sping has really put ideas into my wife's head :-), but last night I finally got some time for myself. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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Steve Bliss wrote on April 6th... (...) The program should refuse to certify a part if not all subfiles are certified. (...) Agreed! We should not put any constraints on the authors. They may scale/rotate/mirror primitives as they wish (not (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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Damien Duquennoy wrote... (...) L3Lab draws a quad as two triangles. You can see this yourself, when you turn off dither-transparency and use true transparency. Because the two triangles share a side, the quad-division line gets drawn twice and is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problem with BFC
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Damien Duquennoy wrote... (...) Your parts renders OK in L3Lab with BFC enabled. /Lars (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Comments on parts up for vote- Pt 1
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Chris Dee wrote... (...) "L3P -check" has always been able to spot singular matrices, simply because POV cannot handle them. L3Lab uses the same file parser as L3P (which BTW is public available in ldglite). However, L3Lab could easily render edge (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC: LITS 2
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Running "l3p -check" (checks all DAT's in P and PARTS) revals: SKIPPING "4285.DAT" Line 981: Singular matrix: 1 16 10 4 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1-4cyli.dat SKIPPING "6043.DAT" Line 17: Singular matrix: 1 16 0 20 -16 8 0 0 0 0 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: open source & inventory ?
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Jonathan Wilson wrote... (...) Don Heyse has published source for ldglite, an OpenGL extension of ldlite for Windows/Linux/Mac using L3 parser/viewer at (URL) Zide has published the source for LeoCAD, see (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problem with 1-4con1.dat
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John VanZwieten wrote... (...) Yes, already made. I just need to update the colors. BTW, what is the LDraw color for the smoke-colored transparent SW cockpit (32?), and does anyone have a good POV color for it? /Lars (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3Lab is so awesome!
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John VanZwieten wrote... (...) Thanks John, I guess you have read "Help/About L3Lab..." by now :-) Actually L3Lab may be a little too helpful reviewing parts, as it fixes bow-ties etc. Bow-ties in old parts should of course be fixed to render them (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Thanks Steve for your great work. Beside the 476 bow-ties, the next L3P version would like to comment: WARNING "X44.DAT" Line 127: Identical to line 40: 5 24 0 -7 -6 0 -9 -7 2.68 -6.47 -6 -2.68 -6.47 -6 WARNING "X44.DAT" Line 142: Identical to line (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3P won't work on my computer
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Why is it when I try to open L3P.exe it just appears for a brief second and then turns off? Does it have anything to do with Windows 2000? BTW I use L3Lab to generate my POV files, is there any way to incorporate L3PAO to use L3Lab to generate the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ldlite
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(...) And there's also LeoCAD if you want to have a nice GTK interface to help you edit your models. (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ldlite
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(...) Ah yes, documentation would be nice. I started adding to the ldlite command line documentation but seem to have lost that file somehow. I think there is a text version of the original ldlite documentation in the zip file. Look for ldlite.txt. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ldlite
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Awesome. I got it to compile and run on FreeBSD 3.2. Are the command line arguments documented anywhere? KL (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | L3P and part no 30359
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While i was converting a dat file with L3P to pov i noticed that part no 30359 (the space laser) is not converted correctly. The base of the laser is too small. George (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: ldlite
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(...) You could try ldglite. It's a port of ldlite to opengl. Look here: (URL) get the latest version that's not yet visible on the web page. (I had to do my taxes.) (URL) fun, Don (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad) !
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| | Which submitted parts have been put on hold ?
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Steve, in lugnet.cad.dev, you wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] I'm one of the unlucky victims who's parts didn't make it into this vote. Although I'm not happy with it, I respect your motivations. I'm sure putting up this voting round was complicated (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ldlite
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Is there a ldraw/ldlite renderer (not ray traced) that runs on unix? KL (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Maybe he meant something like: (URL) or (URL) And as you can see, not more polygons, but actually less. as a rule of tumb, "less points implies less polys". NOTE: both examples could be even more simplified (less points) if we removed the disc (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) complete half disc: It would obviously be better to use a half disc in the first place. What John meant above was, if I understood him correctly, a disc with a diameter larger than the quad's height. That way, the problem is non-trivial, and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Spider-Chariot [DAT]
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This is the Spider-Chariot that I brought to the recent DixieLUG meeting. I've posted a JPEG at "(URL) let me know what you think. Thanks, Franklin 0 FILE spdr-ch0.dat 0 MPD Author: Franklin W. Cain 0 0 This .MPD was compiled using M-Peedy 0 (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Help for povray needed!
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You probably want something like : povengine /RENDER <filename> /NR /EXIT Here is a copy of the docs from POV3.1 concerning this: Special Command-Line Options POV-Ray for Windows supports several special command-line options not recognized by other (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) This depends only on the actual part, the point of view and in which order the overlapping polys are given (also depends on view). (...) Not exactly, see what I mean in the following example image: (URL) points are marked in RED 1 - Quad and a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Some more comments on parts ! Maybe I will repeat some other notes, I don't know, I haven't checked all the other mails to compare, so here goes nothing. - [2466p07.dat] This part as 2 bowtie quads in the front panel See the following image: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Rendered image to jpg?
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Hey thanks for all the help everybody. I just realized right after I posted that Pov Ray saves the renders as bmp's in my ldraw file. Doh. Thanks again. -Jon. www.geocities.com/le...rdiel.html jpalmer@oklahoma.net (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) Well, that certainly explains a lot! Thanks! I'm obviously not too familiar with windows yet. Fredrik (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Help for povray needed!
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Hy, I'm currently writing an enhanced export function for MLCad and had the idea to include povray into the export process. My question: is there any way to start povray (for Windows 3.1) from the command-line to just generate a picture for an (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some POV-Ray Questions!
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(...) You add a "plane" object to your POV file, or the easy way is to turn on the floor when using L3P. If you're using L3PAO, all you have to do is click the checkbox. If not, run "l3p -h" to get the list of command line parameters. Adding a floor (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Rendered image to jpg?
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(...) There are better ways, especially if you want to preserve 24-bit color without a 24-bit color display. By default, POV outputs TGA files after rendering, but I don't know where. In povray.ini, there's a line that you can change to send the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Rendered image to jpg?
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What you can do if you have Windows 98 is when you have the model in Pov ray hit the Print Screen button (top row, right side). Then open Paint, click on Edit, and then Paste, and boom there it is. Course you'll want to crop it a little bit and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space, lugnet.publish)
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| | Rendered image to jpg?
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I have a really silly question. I finally figured how to use Pov ray a little but I don't know how I would go about saving my finished model after it's rendered, in another file format like jpg. I'm trying to put a few models on my website. Told (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LGEO -> L3P
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(...) True, but often you can hardly read the logo anyway--but the texture is still there, which makes the studs look more realistic. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: New Part: Castle Shield with Black Falcon Pattern [DAT]
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(...) This is VERY strange, and now does look like a bug in MLCad 1.8 (any chance you could take a look Mike) The offending line is 4 16 4 21 -10 7 21 -10 4 23.5 -10 3 22 -10 which MLCad 1.8 thinks is a bowtie, but rotating the points (1234 to 4123) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Epaulets?
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Does anyone know if the handy little LEGO epaulets ("frilly shoulder pieces"?) were ever made into dat files? If not, does anyone know a decent facsimile, at least something to spruce up some minifigs for use as naval officers? Thanks in advance. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 2000-01 Voting Closing Soon
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The votes have been trickling in. If you want to make your opinion known, please vote soon! I will probably be taking the vote-page down tomorrow night. That's Tuesday, April 18th. If you have fixes for any of your parts that you want included in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Easy hosing with LDraw-mode
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I've just added a function to LDraw-mode which makes the process of composing a bent 73590.DAT Hose Flexible 8.5L very easily. Here's what you do: Insert the end points where you want them. Here's an example: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 750 .dat 1 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) I believe you're supposed to do this with a "regular" explorer window, NOT Internet Explorer. Try "Start/Programs/Windows Explorer", or right click on "My Computer" and select Explore. I just tried it on Windows 2000 and I had to use (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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(...) Usually software Renderers internally use only triangles, because it simplifies the rendering algorythm, but in an hardware renderer, you can't be sure, it depends much on the hardware architecture. There a few hardware renderers which also (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part: Castle Shield with Black Falcon Pattern
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(...) Thanks a lot Joachim. This is the info I needed. I'll take another look ... and maybe I need to download a more recent version of MLCAD (I'm still on 1.4). Chris (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Sorry, that's my fault -- I had started out adding the 'Official...' comment to some files, but then I figured I should probably wait until *after* the voting to add/change the tag. But 3461.dat is an old part, that accidently got overwritten (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 30377.dat Battle Droid Arm
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(...) That's probably a good approach to take. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) Ah! I just knew I had read this somewhere, but I couildn't find it even though I searched for a long time. Thanks! (...) The problem is that I don't have this menu option in the Internet Explorer 4.0 on my PC. So I don't know how to insert (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) I'm pretty sure there are instructions on how to set this up in the README.TXT file in the ldglite distribution. They should be generic enough to apply to l3lab. The only gotcha is whether l3lab can handle filenames with spaces and parenthesis (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Part: Castle Shield with Black Falcon Pattern
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Hi Chris, Chris Dee <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: Ft43Bu.HuD@lugnet.com... (...) I put a screen-shoot at (URL) that is made out of mlcad 1.8 (...) Ciao, Joachim. (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | [PART] 2717.dat - Technic Seat (ver 3) [DAT]
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0 Technic Seat 0 Name: 2717.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Un-Official Part 1 16 -20 -41.5 13 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 4-4edge.dat 1 16 -20 -41.5 13 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 4-8sphe.dat 1 16 20 -41.5 13 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 4-4edge.dat 1 16 20 -41.5 13 0 -1 0 2 0 0 0 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating vector graphic files
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GREAT! I look forward to try it! Please let me know when you've finished? Greetingz... Sjaacko Guido Heunen <heunen@crys.chem.uva.nl> wrote in message news:Ft0q4s.5Mq@lugnet.com... (...) time. (...) that (...) from (...) in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) It is getting the filename from the name of the CGI script, ldraw.cgi. (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) I'm using Internet Explorer 4.0 on Windows NT platform (yes, this is at work, I would never use such a thing at home). The URLs I'm accessing are the ones you get by clicking on the "[DAT]" symbol in the LUGNET web interface, eg: (URL) I try (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) Hmm. What client are you using, and what URLs are you accessing? The names "ldraw", "ldraw(1)", "ldraw(3)", etc. don't come from the webserver -- it doesn't specify a filename. --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) Yes, I did. The problem appears to be that files from the LUGNET web interface don't have the ".dat" extension, but called "ldraw", "ldraw(1)", "ldraw(2)" and so on. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Fredrik (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Dear Authors, Some comments on the parts: ---...--- 2717.dat Technic Seat 1. The vertical stud on the back raises backward beyond the plane of the box. Left or right view can clearly reveal it. 2. Holes are missing from bottom of the seat. My part (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: CAD newbie suggestions?
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(...) There is an "LDRaw for the Macintosh Campaign" website. (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: CAD newbie suggestions?
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Well, if you are a Mac user, theer are not many choices. 8( You can use POV-RAY, which produces good results, and has a wide array of parts available, but is not terribly intuitive. You can also run mlcad on a Mac, provided you have RealPC and a Mac (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The coolest shading I've ever seen
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Todd: Not sure what the artist used, but I use Illustrate, a plug-in for 3DS MAX. It allows for cel-like shading of rendered models. Eric (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Podracer Render
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(...) Because of the smoke the render took 18 hours to finish! But i think it was worth the wait! George (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Help! Many part numbers missing
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Anybody has any fills? (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts voting - 2717
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(...) Thanks! (...) I think I corrected this issue. Maybe I never sent the updated file to Steve...? /Tore (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New Part: 6881.dat - Tile 6 x 6 [DAT]
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This was a tricky one... ;o) 0 @Tile 6 x 6 0 Name: 6881.dat 0 Author: Tore Eriksson 0 Unofficial Element 0 Fromset: 6232 0 tile.lds 0 0 0 60 8 60 4 16 -60 8 60 -56 8 56 -56 8 -56 -60 8 -60 4 16 60 8 60 56 8 56 56 8 -56 60 8 -60 4 16 -60 8 -60 -56 8 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: Castle Shield with Black Falcon Pattern
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(...) Can anyone else confirm or refute this problem? Not that I disbelieve what Joachim is seeing, just that I cannot reproduce it, nor see the problem in the DAT file. Maybe it is a renderer problem, or a problem in the upload. I want to fix this (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Problem with BFC
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Hi Damien, I've downloaded your part and had a look at it using MLCad. When you look more exactly at the part e.g. zoom in to see details, you will see that not only that sub-parts are drawn wrong where the background is white and so we can see them (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MOC: 1959 Cadillac Eldorado
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(...) people don't _have_ to use transparent pieces for the windscreen -- sometimes they simply clutter the model more than needed in my opinion. I don't believe all those parts exist in pink, though! ;-) As for scale, I'd say the vehicle is more (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: LGEO -> L3P
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Bram Lambrecht schrieb: (...) I did not test this, but this may cause some unwanted results, since the studs are rotated and mirrored in may parts, so would be the LEGO logo. Lutz (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 30377.dat Battle Droid Arm
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(...) How about introducing a complete R2 shortcut? That should elliminate any confusion as to where the individual parts reside? Fredrik (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Help converting DXF to DAT
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I created a torso pattern in CorelDraw!, which can export ASCII DXF files. I can then convert the DXF to ASC or 3DS using 3DWin. However, MAX2DAT only reads ASE and 3DX. I don't have 3DStudio, so I can't use the plugin Onyx has on his site. Is there (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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(...) Depends on the program. LDraw renders triangles by duplicating the final point, and rendering it as a quad. LDLite (I believe) splits quads into triangles. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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(...) Did you use the "Register Files" command in L3Lab? This function should make the registry settings needed to launch DAT files via MIME-types. At least, it seemed to on my system. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another space render...
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(...) Nah, we'll just ascribe it to an impostor. ;) (...) It paid off! I'm still going back to the .jpgs and marvelling at the way it looks. Have you thought about doubling one of the struts, to make it a triangular support geometry? (...) No, no (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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(...) Yes, all you have to do is add the include line before any submodel/model declarations. I've also editted LG_DEFS.INC so that you can still write "LEGO" on all the studs if QUAL = 3. If anyone wants it, I'll upload it too. (For anyone who (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Big shock absorber
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Hi everyone I'm still searching for a non official part : does someone have made the big shock absorber. I realy like to get it if it's possible, i'm working on a motorcycle. Thank's in advance. Damien -- Damien et Nathalie Duquennoy 26, rue du (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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Steve Bliss wrote (...) It's quite long to correct done parts, but it's easy to make them BFC compliant when creating them. I work with l3lab, with test6 option always on. Try it, it's easy. Damien. (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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Hi Well, i think it's also possible to substitue some quads to the triangles. But i've made some tests with l3lab and there is no differences on rendering time between the triangle version and quad version of my disc. Does someone know how quads are (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts voting comments
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Hi everyone Here are some comments on the parts i have look at. x552 - 32199 On the new primitive axlehole8.dat 4 optional lines are missing. But they are already missing on axle.dat, axlehole3.dat primitives. And they are ok on Axle 2 notched. (Hey (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Problem with BFC [DAT]
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Hi everyone, I'm working correct a part i made before to make it BFC compatible. But i have a problem. The part is the Motorcycle tyre 81.6x15, also available in the Mindstorms set. To do this part, i've made a subfile, wich i reuse 48 times to get (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LGEO -> L3P
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(...) Is the part substitution automatic? In other words is having this file included in the POV file all that needs to be done or does one have to tweak the appropriate parts somehow? Thanks, Will Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | 1959 Cadillac Eldorado [DAT]
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Pics here: (URL) FILE 59cd.dat 0 '59 Cadillac Eldorado Hovercar 0 Name: hcdy.dat 0 Author: Bram Lambrecht <blambrec@student.chuh.org> 1 16 0 0 80 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3832.DAT 1 16 0 0 -60 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3031.DAT 1 16 0 0 -140 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | MOC: 1959 Cadillac Eldorado
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I've finished converting my hover car to a grounded vehicle: (URL) the original: (URL) a bit big for minifig scale if you consider a minifig to be 6 feet tall, but if you consider the fig's width, I think it's about right :) (Maybe this'll start (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Podracer Render
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(...) Great rendering! I really liked the engine plumes. John (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Podracer Render
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I just finished the rendering of Anakin's podracer and posted it at: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Ninja Sword Mock-Up
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Does anyone have a mock-up of the ninja sword that comes in virtually every Ninja set? I need it to finish a model I am currently working on. Thanks in advance. Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Setting up IE to view DAT files with L3Lab?
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Hi, my work PC has Windows NT and Internet Explorer 4.0. When I click on a DAT file from a hypertext reference, e.g. (URL) DAT file is sent to L3Lab and views nicely. If I click on a DAT file from some of the LUGNET CAD groups, however, I am (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) I think there are a few mistakes in that file. I posted a corrected version which looks good on my system. (...) Yeah, that's a good point. You'll do whatever you want on the issue of splitting the central part of the hose or not, I don't care (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 32199 Technic Flexible Axle 11 (MPD'd) [DAT]
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I think you goofed a bit on this part. This looks better on my system: Fredrik 0 FILE c:\apps\ldraw\models...\32199.dat 0 Technic Axle Flexible 11 0 Name: 32199.dat 0 Author: Steve Bliss 0 Unofficial Element 0 This part is written so the main axle (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Another space render...
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message ... (...) I quite like both lens2 and lens3. I'd say "bigger sun" but you're probably right about lighting anomalies. On another note, I've never understood the fascination many people have with using those space (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Comments on parts up for vote- Pt 2
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(...) Oops, I ment to enquire how to do them, but forgot:) As my system is in a total mess at the time, I'm not able to make the corrections, if anyone else want to, it's fine by me, otherwise it'll have to wait until I get something running here. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Pixelego Update
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Folks, I have updated my Pixelego application. This application processes JPG and GIF images into 'LEGO murals' and provides a complete brick partitioning and inventory. It is written in Java1.1.7 It is downloadable from: (URL) latest version: - (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Solar Powered Racing Spacecraft
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(...) I will have higher resolution pics soon, but I'm trying to finish up the composition first: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Another space render...
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(...) OK, I added some lens flares: (URL) one looks best? Are the flares too big? Too bright? Badly placed? TIA, --Bram (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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